Improved mode of preventing the untwisting of the ends of wire-rope bands



UNITED STATES APATENT OEEToE.

ARTHUR BARBARIN, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

IMPROVED MODE OF PREVENTING THE UNTWISTING 0F THE ENDS OF WIRE-ROPE BANDS.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR BARBARIN, of the city of New Orleans, parish of Orleans, and State of Louisiana, have invented a certain new, useful, and Improved Mode of Preventing the Untwisting or Loosening of the Ends of Wire-Rope Bands when the same are used for banding cotton or other bales; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification.

My invention consists in soldering together the ends of the several wires composing the wire-rope band with zinc or some other solder, that each end of the band shall, when so soldered, form but one solid mass, which will prevent the untwisting or loosening of any or of all the ends of the several wires forming the said band, which is inevitably the case when those ends are left nnsoldered; but my invention will be more clearly understood by refery ring to the drawings, in which- `Figure l shows the untwisted ends A and A of the wire-rope band b before the application of my invention, and Fig. 2 represents the same ends of the wire-rope band b after the application of my invention, which,it will be seen, have been formed into solid ends.

After ungalvanized wire-rope has been out into bands of the proper length, which operation may be performed at the manufactory or elsewhere, the ends of those bands should be subjected to any process used as a mordant previous to their being dipped into a bath of prepared molten zinc or of other solder, in

order that a iirm and reliable coating of either shall attach thereto. y

Instead of dipping the ends of the bands into a bath of zinc or of other solder, a solderingiron, or some other heating process, may be employed with the solder for soldering the same; but on a large scale the first-described method is, I believe, preferable.

Should galvanized instead of ungalvanized wire-rope bands be used, their ends should be soldered without recourse to the ungalvanized wire-rope process but that process may be used, if desirable.

My invention is so useful, cheap, and simple that any laborer, however dull of intellect, will readily understand its application; and while it will prevent the untwisting or loosening of the ends of any or of all the wires composing a wire-rope band, it will also prevent the tearing of therhands of those applying said bands to cotton or other bales, which injury to the hands is inevitable when the ends of those bands remain unsoldered. This constitutes the most decided merit of my invention.

After having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A wire-rope band in which the ends of the several wires composing the saine are soldered together, substantially as herein described, and shown in the accompanying drawings, and for the purposes set forth.

. ARTHUR BARBARIN.

Witnesses:

P. F. PERRET, J. MULLEDY. 

